I have recently received a spate of apocalyptic robo phone calls, intoning the current charges being leveled at practically everyone and everything connected to President Obama’s administration. Never mind they have been disproved for the most part, or have been deliberately sabotaged as in the case of the ACA.
At a crucial stage in the 2000 GOP primary, when George Bush and John McCain were running neck and neck, robo callers spread lies about McCain that were credited by some scholars with tipping the scales in favor of Bush.
I am 85 years old. I hope I live to see the day we return to the civil society I once knew, with honest statesmen able to manage the economy, pay the bills that all responsible governments must pay and provide liberty and justice for all.
There is enough gross domestic product in this country that we could raise taxes to pay our national debt within a reasonable time, just as we paid off our World War II debt. This would in turn free us from interest on the national debt, money that could be plowed back into the economy for infrastructure repair and improvement of other programs, such as health, education and welfare. Using current data, it has been estimated that our national debt will increase within the next decade by some $11 trillion, more than half attributable to additional interest charges during that period.
BOB COOK, Manhattan